Collecting, Comparing, and Computing Sequences: The Making of Margaret O. Dayhoff's Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, 1954-1965

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 623-660

  Strasser, Bruno J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; computers; database; molecular biology; natural history; protein sequences; ways of knowing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BOOK; HISTORY; KNOWLEDGE; PROTEIN DATABASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; AUTOMATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; KNOWLEDGE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952479637     PISSN: 00225010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10739-009-9221-0     Document Type: Article

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